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About SCA Rainier Recovery Rainier News The View From the Breakfast Table
The View From the Breakfast Table |
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July 2, 2007 The place we call home is a historic campsite. The campground is nestled in behind the Longmire Community Building – across the Nisqually River from the rest of Longmire – and unseen by most visitors. The site was at its peak back in the 1930s But that’s not all you’ll see these days. The SCA Mount Rainier Recovery Corps led volunteers this spring in restoration of the Longmire campground. They built rock lined pathways, a fire pit, and most importantly – they set up our tents.  Along the road behind the community center is a row of nine canvas tents, two SCA members live in each. They may not look like much to outsiders, but within each tent are two cots, two sleeping bags, two pillows, and enough personal belongings to make each tent into a little home.
Part of the corps’ job this summer, besides helping to repair the park from flood damage, is to help clean up the Longmire campground. The park plans to use this campground as a place for future volunteers to rest their heads. The clean up of the campground is just one of the many ways the SCA is helping Mount Rainier to set up a cohesive long-term volunteer program. Each night in our tents we fall asleep to the sound of the Nisqually River in the distance, and the sound of wind in the trees and pine needles falling onto our roofs. And each morning we wake up and walk to breakfast through an old growth forest. Then we sit down at a breakfast table with this view. What more could you ask for?
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though the 1960s, but went out of use when the Cougar Rock campground was built in the 60s. Since then the campsite has become overgrown with moss. Walking around the grounds you’ll see pieces of cement picnic tables blanketed with moss and bryophyte-splotched stone water spigots.
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